Ryan's Cyclone Dust Collector

Ryan's Cyclone Dust Collector

First I need to give credit where credit is due. There are two guys that have helped out more than they can possibly imagine. Lee Styron with his site on how to build a dust collector. His site gave me the ambition to build my own blower. Lee's web site can be viewed at Bill Pentz and his cyclone dust collector research page has given me more information than I can possibly ever use. I have ignored more of his advice than followed. Anyone that is attempting to put together a dust collection system of any kind needs to read Bill's site.

This is the plan that I bought from Wood magazine. I thought this would be the perfect plan. This way I would not have to do any research. HA! After doing some reading (for days) I found that with just a few changes this plan could become very usable.

Since there are quite a few different stages to the cyclone construction I have broken it into the following pages.

Cyclone Home Parts and Peices Blower and impeller Design and Assembly Cyclone Construction Ducting the Shop Filters Performance Stuff I learned